Re:The History of the URL: Path, Fragment, Query, and Auth
by bronson on Monday July 18, 2016 @07:44PM
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All of your examples have a domain name followed by a single, short landing page identifier. No knowledge of URLs / paths needed.
You seem to be reinforcing the OP's point.
Re:The History of the URL: Path, Fragment, Query, and Auth
by jonknee on Monday July 18, 2016 @07:48PM
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None of those examples support your point, they are all short URLs. Also, the Doctors Without Borders one is a URL and a social media hashtag. Probably every time you see #whatever it is for a hashtag, it has nothing to do with a URL.
Re:The History of the URL: Path, Fragment, Query, and Auth
by wtbob on Monday July 18, 2016 @07:28PM
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> I have frequently seen "example.com/product#platform" style urls, where #platform (and sometimes ?platform) indicates which magazine the ad appeared in.
Since the fragment doesn't get sent to the server, that seems broken …
http://cdn.doctorswithoutborders.org/sites/usa/files/tpp_ad_... http://i.imgur.com/HWNM1KZ.jpg http://www.shofforddesign.com/wp-content/uploads/Oakley-Maga...
This sort of thing is useful for advertising specifically. In the examples I've given:
1) targeted information 2) short url 3) direct-to-relevant-site from the ad
In my experience, in-house or business-wide advertising tends to use just the domain, but campaigns farmed out to marketing firms or campaigns related to specific products tend to use path info as well as domain name.
And while I've never seen auth credentials in an advertised URL, I have frequently seen "example.com/product#platform" style urls, where #platform (and sometimes ?platform) indicates which magazine the ad appeared in.